LITT Meeting - February 25, 2010

3:30 to 5:00 PM, Board Room

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Welcome and District Business

Opening Discussion Notes:

Ed Tech Profile

• Status Update: District Completion Report
  • Congrats to Redondo Union High School, Jefferson, & Tullita for 100% completion!
  • And to Lincoln & Madison, who seem to be done - and just need to clean up their staff lists. :)
  • What worked (that other schools can emulate)? Announcement and follow up email worked for High School. The high school librarian pitched in to be available to help with "hand holding" - and sent out several email reminders. LITT followed up with phone calls. Sit down 1 on 1 with folks who "can barely turn on their computer."
• Brief Data Review: District Proficiency Analysis Report
  • PD Needs: Online research tools, collaboration tools, connecting students with experts, graphic representations of data etc.
  • PD Formats: Small group, after school (or summer).

Supplemental Survey

• Review Draft: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHZqSXFtUk41MnJQQ1pEb1paVV9OVXc6MA
• Demographics?
• Format?
• Cut some questions?
• Anything missing?
• Implementation Plans? Launch it right now - or after report cards. But some are still doing edtechprofile now... so after report cards.

Update on Network Improvement Project

• $1.7 Million Dollars Approved from Bond Funds - and Aviation Fund

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Google in Education Update

Note: This is an update for the last 18 months or so. ;)

Search

• Search Options, Including: Related searches, Wonder wheel, Timeline (See also Image Swirl for Google Image search.)
• News
  • FastFlip
  • Share custom news sections!
• Google Books (Including Results in Book, Overview, Preview, and More... Plus Magazines, including LIFE! And now... Bookshelves!)
• Google Scholar (Including Legal Opinions and Journals, Full Text Links, Integration with Google Books, and More...)
• Search Curriculum

Note: Due to time constraints, we stopped here.

Docs

• Public Template Gallery
• Shared Folders
• Upload and Share Any Files
• Branching Logic (and Page Breaks) in Forms
• More: The Google Docs Blog (Don't miss the 2009 year in review post!)
• Additional Resource: Creating Quizes in Google Docs via Jimbo Lamb (@misterlamb) - IF formulas are the key. :)

Even More

• Google Maps (New Content: Photos, Videos, Wikipedia, Webcams)
  • Also, check out the Haiti image layer in Earth...
  • And more cool updates to Maps and Earth - Like the Olympics in 3D!
• Google Voice
• Google Wave
• Mobile (Including Goggles)
• The Official Google Blog Directory

And don't miss the latest Google Teacher Academy Resources .
Thanks to Chris Bell (@cbell619) for suggesting several items on this list.

Reflection

• Which of these tools can you implement right away?
• Which of these tools would you like to implement by the end of the year?
• Which of these tools would you like to learn to implement someday?